The Daughter's Bequest

'A tense and engaging story spanning four decades (40's to 70's) which examines the relationship between mother and daughter encompassing a varied range of emotions: rejection, sorrow, heartache, pain, compassion and happiness and the capacity to forgive the most offensive of acts. It also examines the need we all have to understand from where and whom we have come from.'Lucy Brennan the heroine born out of wedlock in 1947 is abandoned by her mother and left with the nuns in a Northern...
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'A tense and engaging story spanning four decades (40's to 70's) which examines the relationship between mother and daughter encompassing a varied range of emotions: rejection, sorrow, heartache, pain, compassion and happiness and the capacity to forgive the most offensive of acts. It also examines the need we all have to understand from where and whom we have come from.'Lucy Brennan the heroine born out of wedlock in 1947 is abandoned by her mother and left with the nuns in a Northern Maternity home. The nuns are left to bring her up as she flits from foster parent to foster parent. Emotionally unstable and lacking in self esteem she suffers all the degrees of misfortune that a prisoner in a dungeon would suffer and then suffers the ultimate degradation of being abused by a foster parent.Betrayed, let down and mistreated by the authorities she endeavours to trace her birth mother, only to be rejected by her. Then, as fate decrees she also falls pregnant out of wedlock but makes a solemn vow that she will never desert her daughter as she herself was deserted.Lucy rises to fame and fortune, and now her mother attempts reconciliation . . . . . Suffering from a rare form of leukaemia Lucy's daughter can only be cured by a bone marrow transplant that has to come from a grandparent rather than a parent in order to make it successful. If Lucy's mother refuses to help her own grandchild, then the inevitable outcome is death. Now Providence intervenes as Lucy's mother herself, succumbs to the disease and she also needs a bone marrow transplant; this time from Lucy herself. . . . . Will Lucy agree to help her mother after all the pain and heartache she has been put through?A story which will have you shaking your head in despair one minute and laughing with joy the next.